Cincinnati third baseman Scott Rolen has yet to decide if he will play another season or retire.

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Paul Daugherty
Cincinnati Enquirer

Scott Rolen says goodbye to his wife and their two young children every time he walks out the front door of their home in Bloomington, Ind. Unlike most of the rest of us who work for a living, he doesn't come home in time for dinner. Half the summer, he doesn't come home at all. Turn-down service at the hotel is a poor substitute for a goodnight kiss from your 5-year-old.

Rolen says goodbye to baseball, every October. His last goodbye was one of his most painful. He struck out in the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 5 of the NLDS. He made the last ...